Senior Practice Consultant, Migration

At Semperis, our mission is to be a Force for Good. Starting with being a great place to work. We believe that when people feel valued, supported, and empowered, they do their best work. That’s why we focus on creating an employee experience rooted in purpose, growth, and balance. Semperis has been recognized as one of America’s Fastest-Growing Cybersecurity Companies by the Inc. 5000, a DUNS 100 Top Startup to Work For, and a multi-year Inc. Best Workplace awardee.

What are we looking for:

Semperis is seeking a highly experienced and specialized Senior Practice Consultant, Migration to join the Professional Services Team.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing engagements involving Active Directory (AD) migration, restructuring, and hybrid coexistence scenarios across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments.

• Serve as a product expert and trusted advisor for the Semperis migration product suite (e.g., SMAD, DSP, ADFR, and Delegation Manager), delivering successful outcomes across the Discover, Define, Construct, and Deliver phases of projects.

• Assess and document client AD topology, technical readiness, and business goals, and define a migration roadmap aligned to Semperis product capabilities.

• Lead pre-sales and post-sales technical activities, including:

  • Architecture design and migration job creation

  • Directory sync modeling and attribute transformation logic

  • Deployment of SACA agents and execution of migration workflows

• Collaborate with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to influence feature development and roadmap feedback based on field learnings.

• Serve as an escalation point during production deployments, providing deep troubleshooting and support for issues related to agent communication, ACL updates, profile cutover, SID history, and domain joins.

• Contribute to ongoing development of reusable documentation, scripts, best practices, and internal knowledge bases to improve product deployments and delivery repeatability.

Product-Centric Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and validate Semperis products including:

  • SMAD (Migrator for AD) on AKS or MicroK8s

  • DSP for continuous sync visibility and rollback protection

  • ADFR for cyber-first recovery and test clone validation

• Design, implement, and optimize migration projects within SMAD, including attribute filtering, group mapping, and transformation rules.

• Use PowerShell and logging diagnostics to troubleshoot agent issues (Directory Sync and SACA), validate logs, and support rollback mechanisms.

• Serve as a Product technical SME for SMAD roadmap discussions, identifying functional gaps and suggesting enhancements to improve migration scenarios such as profile remapping, service account cutover, and roaming profile handling.

• Lead beta testing and field feedback initiatives to validate new product releases, build product demonstrations, and contribute to internal QA and training efforts.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 15 years of experience in Active Directory design, administration, and migration across large, complex environments (5,000+ users).

• Expertise in:

  • Active Directory schema and replication

  • SID History, ACL models, and Group Policy migration

  • Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID, AAD Connect, and ADFS

  • PowerShell scripting and automation

  • DNS, DHCP, and enterprise networking

• Recent experience with enterprise AD migration tools (e.g., SMAD, Quest Migration Manager, Binary Tree, ForensiT, ADMT) is required. Experience with Semperis tools is a strong plus.

• Ability to install and configure software within Kubernetes (AKS/MicroK8s) and familiarity with Helm, Ingress Controllers, and TLS certificate management.

• Demonstrated ability to lead customer conversations and present complex AD and identity topics to technical and executive stakeholders.

• Experience with incident response workflows, particularly in recovering or securing compromised AD environments, is a plus.

• Prior work in enterprise software or consultancy settings, delivering solutions within defined SOWs and SLAs.

• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal); other languages a plus.

• Must be able to work from a home office with occasional travel (domestic and international).

• Microsoft and identity certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator, Certified Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

Why Join Semperis?
You’ll be part of a global team on the front lines of cybersecurity innovation. At Semperis, we celebrate curiosity, integrity, and people who take initiative. If you’re someone who sees the glass as half full, embraces challenges as growth opportunities, and values a healthy balance between work and life—we’d love to meet you.

**Semperis maintains office locations in several cities across the globe. Candidates who reside within 45 miles of one of our offices—or where the job description specifies a required location—will follow our hybrid work model. This includes working onsite three days per week and remotely the remaining days.

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